There’s an old joke in German that says “team” means “Toll, ein anderer macht’s”, i.e., “great, somebody else will do it”. Needless to say that that is not what we mean when we talk about team work. In our team, every member brings his or her individual strengths to the party, in order to make the whole more than just the sum of its parts. We learn from each other and we always try to help each other reach that higher level. Precisely because we are different, we respect our differences, knowing that in today’s complex world diversity is not a handicap, but rather an asset.

“Quality can’t be controlled, it is produced”. Call us picky, but we’re suckers for quality. Of course we have procedures that control or “assure” quality, like QA systems, QA testing and all that. But in our world, there’s more to quality than the control part. Quality starts at the beginning. It starts with asking a lot of questions, with really understanding what the customer wants. With trying to anticipate the future and how requirements might evolve over time. And building that evolution into the software right from the start. It requires a quality mindset, and that’s what we’re trying to bring to the party.

We all spend most of our daily time at work, so it had better be time well spent. We are passionate about software development and IT, and love to figure out the best solution for any given problem in that domain. Since that requires a lot of creativity, we are trying to model our team and office in ways that bolster this creativity. Basically we're trying to build a utopian office environment – we still got some ways to go, but we're working on it.